Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts, 1961. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. 150 copies printed at the Acorn Press for private distribution to members of The Society of Typographic Arts and the Typophiles, New York. The drawings were taken from his 1890 Christmas book. READ MORE
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Grosse Point, Michigan: Adagio: The Private Press of Leonard Bahr, n.d.(but 1961). 12mo. stiff paper wrapper, paper cover label. unpaginated. Limited to an edition of 175 (Tanner and Alstrom 6). A story of Christmas, signed by the author. Set in Weiss (roman and italic) and Legend, on white Strathmore Alexandra Japan, in three colors. Printed for Weeks. READ MORE
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. small 8vo. faux leather. 48 pages. Allison also provided an introduction. Correspondence between Diderot and this Princess. READ MORE
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Volume One: Manuscripts.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xi, 114 pages. Volume One: Manuscripts. First edition. Introduction by Archibald Hanna. This volume was the only one published. Lengthy annotations accompany each item. Illustrated. Jacket chipped along edges. READ MORE
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Volume One: Manuscripts.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xi, 114 pages. Volume One: Manuscripts. First edition. Introduction by Archibald Hanna. This volume was the only one published. Lengthy annotations accompany each item. Illustrated. Jacket has tears and spots and with a small hole in corner of front cover. Name in ink at top of free endpaper. READ MORE
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Volume One: Manuscripts.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xi, 114 pages. Volume One: Manuscripts. First edition. Introduction by Archibald Hanna. This volume was the only one published. Lengthy annotations accompany each item. Illustrated. Ex library copy with markings. READ MORE
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New Haven: Yale University Library, 1952. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 398, (2) pages. Introduction by James T. Babb followed by the well annotated catalogue. READ MORE
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New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1913. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards. xiv, 56 pages. First edition, limited to 300 copies. History of the collection followed by detailed descriptions of these incunabula and 16th century books. Minor wear to covers. Near fine. READ MORE
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West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 1985. broadside (14 by 7 inches). bottom and right edges uncut. Limited to 125 copies, signed by the author. With a wood engraving by John DePol. READ MORE
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(Richmond, VA): The Attic Press, (1975). miniature book (5.5 x 6.6 cm). decorated paper-covered boards, bottom edge uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 60 numbered copies, signed by the binder. (Bradbury, Attic Press Richmond 1). Illustrations by Eleanor Shell. Orignall written in 1866. With the miniature bookplate of Kalman L. Levitan. READ MORE
Price: $150.00 save 30% $105.00 other currencies Order nr. 116630
New York, NY and New Haven, CT: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, (2002). 4to. cloth, dust jacket, decorated endpapers. x, 594 pages. Table of contents, director's foreword by Philip de Montebello, acknowledgmetns, list of lenders, bibliography, index, photographic credits. Contributions, with endnotes, by a number of scholars. Photography by Bruce White. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Catalogue of an exhibition featuring Renaissance tapestries. READ MORE
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (2012). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 335+(1) pages. Table of contents, list of lenders, foreword, acknowledgments, two appendices, endnotes, selected bibliography, index, photography credits. A number of scholarly essays on the linkage between impressionism and fashion. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Catalogue of an exhibition at Chicago, New York, and Paris. READ MORE
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New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1985. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 499 pages. The first eight chapters are a biography of Charled Robert Ashbee, followed by six chapters of his work as an architect and designer, and the last two draw the book together. He established the Essex House Press in England. Ink inscription on free endpaper. READ MORE
Price: $42.50 save 15% $36.12 other currencies Order nr. 104835
New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2005. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 78 pages. Books tell us many things beyond what their authors write in them. Single copies of books, for instance, often reveal their particular history, who owned them, who read them, who gave them as gifts, how they changed hands over the years. This catalogue of the Beinecke Library exhibition, A Book of Her Own, explores an unusual aspect of book history: all of the... READ MORE
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New Haven, CT: Yale University, 1994. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 83 pages. Exhibition Catalogue of the many Greek manuscripts that were on display at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 1994 and then later at the Grolier Club. The exhibition celebrated the five-hundredth anniversary of the Aldine Press, which was founded in 1494 by the famous Italian printer Aldus Manutius. Manutius wanted to promote the Greek culture in his printings as well as... READ MORE
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British Columbia: Barbarian Press, 1984. large 8vo. scarlet cloth, paper cover and spine labels, top edge cut, fore and bottom edges uncut, cloth-covered slipcase. xii, 49 pages, with 3 additional leaves. Printed in an edition limited to 350 copies. Hand-set in 14 point Scotch roman and italic and printed on Zerkall Cream Wove. The six illustrations, the printers' marks, and the press device were printed from Edwina Ellis's wood engravings. A Drama in 2 Acts... READ MORE
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New Haven: Yale University Library, (1974). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 111 pages. First edition, the hardbound variant. Illustrated. READ MORE
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A Guide to its Collections
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1994). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 123+(3) pages. A Guide to its Collections. Second edition. An extensive guide to the renowned Beinecke Library, with a focus on American, German, and Western Americana literature. Slight shelfwear. READ MORE
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New Haven: Yale University Library. 1983, 1983. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. A catalogue for an exhibition commemorating the first twenty years of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale. 115 well-annotated entries, illustrated with photographs and facsimiles, representing a cross-section of the library's eclectic holdings. Introduction by Ralph W. Franklin, Director. READ MORE
Price: $18.00 save 15% $15.30 other currencies Order nr. 47456
N.P. Privately printed by The Stinehour Press for the Duschnes, 1967. 12mo. paper wrappers. (6) pages. Limited to 500 copies printed for the Heritage of the Graphic Arts, Gallery 303. Sent out at Christmas Time. READ MORE
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 63 pages. First edition. Southern author. Yale Series of Younger Poets. Copyright deposit copy. One of two copies submitted by the publisher for copyright purposes. This copy not selected for the Library's collections. Copyright Office and Library of Congress surplus duplicate stamps. Fine in dust jacket. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 save 15% $12.75 other currencies Order nr. 112394
New York: Brown Company, 1966. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Volume 34, No.1. Annual Christmas publication of the Brown Company; this issue, dedicated to the American Bible Society, gives a brief historical account of the Bible and its transmission. Well-illustrated. Front cover is tape repaired. READ MORE
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New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1980. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 13 pages. One of 250 copies (Heaney B15). Being Oak Knoll's Christmas book for 1980. Containing an introduction by the firm and a chapter from Mr. Block's The Burglar who Liked to Quote Kipling about the nabbing of a book thief in an antiquarian bookshop. READ MORE
Price: $75.00 save 30% $52.50 other currencies Order nr. 1342
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vi, 204 pages. First edition. Fifteen separate chapters by different authors including Putnam, Bay, Kenyon, the editors, Wilson and one very informative article by Otto Kinkeldey on the production of Palm Leaf Books. Signed and dated by Bishop on free endpaper. Well preserved copy. READ MORE
Price: $45.00 save 15% $38.25 other currencies Order nr. 38682
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. 8vo. cloth. vi, 204 pages. First edition. Fifteen separate chapters by different authors including Putnam, Bay, Kenyon, the editors, Wilson and one very informative article by Otto Kinkeldey on the production of Palm Leaf Books. Lacks dust jacket. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 save 15% $12.75 other currencies Order nr. 43708
